Does Andy Serkis, the actor playing Gollum in "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy deserve an Oscar for his work and acting? Visual Effects Supervisor Joe Letteri weighs in.

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I ... Ch ... in you mention any circus who played as actor who plays golf out ten years ago ... he had to act as scenes on a separate stage and then they were merged with the live actors ... in post production ... not so this time around he got to XY with the other ... actors how to change things and why we able to do that ... look ten years ago when Andy was prone to do though he was brought in is just the boys doctor right when you thought animated characters in those days ... the the actor when into a booth recorded the voice in in these key frame animation creepy character ... but can be read in standing up to the side of this the staged reading is less than the other actors to Sir to put on a student jumped in the middle of that and ... that really charged up the scene in the Church of the performance will look at and settled up to a seagull and even in the final nail film ... so we came out with the idea of motion capture with that ... that that I was really have a science experiment ... of but you know we really pushed on and improve it could be used as a filmmaking technique in those you know really what he saw and all the first time around ... but ... they are the heck to come back like oftentimes months later into a separate stage ... and watches performance and try to recreate in we have to try to fit it all in ... the ten years ago we just thought would it be great if we could just capture what he's doing when he doesn't ... have that be what you see on the screen ... and so we've worked easy these past ten years and ... yet having gone through a number of films like King Kong and other torture really tried to ... understand more and more about performance capture ... to the point where what we got to Lord of the Rings it was this homecoming ... Indy could be on the set with Martin with Peter directing ... and what you see is is gone ... any worker Daniel I do think he deserves an honorary Oscar for his work in the genre ... I think he deserves on Oreos fried probably deserves a unit that just a straight acting Oscar is well I mean ... you know we're looking at the performances would deny that that's that's a performance that touches you ... but I and are still wide Academy has a hard time sorting out this is all pretty new ... I ... I ...